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Blaise pitches?
I used to wow my daughter when she was wee, 9 years ago, by flexing my left knee so that she could see all the flecks of black grit under the skin.
Still can’t remember where I picked them up – St Benedict’s under-14s, under the tutelage of Father Cairns, or Wee Joe as he insisted we called him when we met in the Jungle.
I was the worst left back St Benedict’s ever had.
A great man was Fr Cairns. Even when he told me I was the worst left back St Benedict’s ever had. It felt like a distinction of some sort, and you walked away happy.
Matt Busby had that knack as well, I believe.
Not sure if these links are permitted
but I’m sure the mods will let me know.
Liverpool v Spurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7B9q-u2mA8
Just saw Big Vic’s goal for Spurs – was there any way we could have kept him – short answer is no not as long as Celtic are stuck in the back water that Scottish football has become.
Maybe not good enough for Celtic but I hope big Nadir has a great season with Motherwell
Greenbingly
St Benedicts Easterhouse ?
Had a scary midweek there one spring night when beating some mob, maybe Wellhouse or somebody else, escaped with a victory and no physical violence :-)
Philbhoy
My Aunt and Uncle lived in Garthamlock with their nine kids
I visited every summer and loved it. Neighbours welcomed us openly
My one big memory was my first view of “the scramble” while waiting on a bride
I hadn’t a clue what was coming …………stood in awe……………. and a neighbour of my aunt screams “that’s it everyone up and let the wee paddy have a go”
Brilliant place
HH
Charliebhoy@5:58
Nearly choked on ma steak pie there :)))))HH
New CQN Podcast with special guest Neil Lennon, listen now.
The podcast has been a great addition to CQN, it’s not all doom and gloom!
https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=45161
Spurs 2 pens were shocking IMO
Dena29
As a wee kid scrambles were magic to this day I still don’t know whoever hit married but it was run or be run over to get to them :-)
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 4TH FEBRUARY 2018 7:03 PM
No Gerry, mine was St Benedict’s Drumchapel.
I do remember beating some mob on a red blaise pitch that had broken glass all over it and having to run to the minibus at the end of the game to escape.
They told us when we arrived that we weren’t going home intact – a team; malevolent stares, simmering, tooled up.
And we’re playing in the Hoops.
I think that was what bothered them. :)
Schools football in Glasgow circa 1961/62
St Dominics Primary, Castlemilk
(Reserves as they were callled in that era)
For away games, the janitor Mr Kelly who ran the football side of things, would leave out 11 columns of thrupennies, hapennies & pennies for each of us, then we’d somehow follow to a bustop one of the players who knew where he was going. No teacher/ jannie/parent/adult of any kind travelled with us.
Eleven 9/10 year old boys with football boots tied with their laces round our necks.
My sons don’t believe me when I tell them this.
We’d often have to get 2 buses to exotic parts like Pollok & Balornock, but quite how we all got there and back will always be a mystery to me.
We were rubbish & I got to play centre half as I could blooter the ball from up the field. I never headed a ball at all, because it was rarely in the air higher than chest high. Mitre footballs on red ash/clinker, no nets, no refs, no flags. My boots were of the old Jimmy McGrory vintage, leather that came halfway up my shins with yellow laces. The memorable part was leather nail studs that were designed for grass fields, but when used on red ash/clinker etc just got pushed further into the sole. Eventually, the nails would puncture the balls of your feet.
Our worst experience was against St Teresa’s in Possil.
We were getting humped 6-0 & I tackled one of their guys a little robustly. Big mistake.
Until then, I’d never noticed it but he had very scary eyes – whcih he now fixed on me.
“Dae that wan mer time & yer fecking deid. Ye’ll never get on a bus hame.”
I diplomatically engaged in a primitive form of shadow play for the remainder of the game & only breathed properly when I sat down on the bus back into town.
I left St Dominics at the end of that year & never looked back.
Only fringe benefit I ever got was when my name as a school team player was one of the two drawn out of the hat for a ticket to the boys enclosure for the Scotland v England game at Hampden in April 1962, whcih ended 2-0 to Scotland. (2 tickets sent by the Glasgow Schools FA to every school in the city.) Went on my own & this was my first time seeing a football match.
HH
Decisions
Neil Lennon podcast tonight or tomorrow
Neil was a fabulous player and manager for our team, stuff all the other nonsense fae the bigots who hated him
Neil Francis CSC
Dena29
Scrambles were a highlight of my childhood.
Best ones were near my grans’ homes in Govan.
HH
GERRYFAETHEBRIG @7:31
they were certainly a unique experience, only in Scotland
Greenbingley 7.31pm
Still great memories :-)
I was School team captain circa 1981/82 went to some place in Airdrie called Rochsolles, All Saints were the School we were playing we ran all over the top of them but weren’t allowed out after the game
I blame Roy Croppie :-)
Not sure if he was playing but he knows the script :-)
JOHN51 @7:34
I loved them after my initiation ,
but the first was most lucrative with no competition :-))
Do they still do this in Scotland??
HH
Dena29 7.31pm
When my good lady married me 4/4/15 she didn’t do a scramble seemingly the council say its dangerous these days !!!!!!!
She just gave the kids a few pound coins each…. (more than I got :-)
PC world gone mad
Gerry- Neil is a young; improving manager, who will return at some point IMO
DENA29
Some of the happiest days of my yoof!
Hope you and your “wee yin” are grand!
DENA29
Got a few skint knees at they scrambles as well!
Pink doing National Anthem at Superbowl…
you just know she will do the kneeling thing…
GERRYFAETHEBRIG @ 7:43
ridiculous but not surprised
Glad I got to experience them :-))
Philbhoy @7:50
we are great thanks
Catch you later bhoys
going to listen to podcast
HH
Dena29
Seems not.
Can anyone remember any kid getting hurt in a scramble (other than Philboy’s knees)?
Any scratch was painless when you saw the handful coins that you’d gathered.
Scrambling CSC
Wedding Scrambles
When myself and my good lady were married we allowed some of the local peasant children to encroach upon the grounds of the estate and instructed the butler to hand them £5 notes..
Probably not quite as exciting as your Glasgow scheme scrambles but
Ah, the “scrammell”. Haven’t seen one in years. I think every kid in Glasgow looked forward to them. Often got a sixpence, which I seldom got otherwise……
WITS
I haven’t had much to laugh about the last few months , you got me there .
Thanks
HH
WEET WEET WEET
Take care mate!
God bless!
When my sister was getting married back in the early 70’s I took my then English girlfriend (now wife – and lovely she is too) – she could not believe the scramble – was sure one of the kids would end up under the wheels of the car.
Shameless re-bump of a grand article on this Superbowl Sunday.
Homeless man to journalist who has disturbed him. “You should do a story about me.”
Journalist “Why?”
Homeless man “Because I played in two Superbowls.”
http://www.nola.com/living/index.ssf/2018/02/jackie_wallace_ted_jackson.html#incart_2box_nola_river_orleans_news
COYBIG
Have a great Sunday folks
HH
Bada 7.46pm
I hope you are correct, although I am loving Brendan’s legacy building :-)
Wits out
If anybody from here deserves skint knees
Philbhoy is your mhan :-)
GFTB
Ma knees are a mess!
They don’t tan in the summer, disney look too good!
Weet Weet Weet 8.15pm
The Georgian 11/03/18 is a date
And remember the memories will never leave you and the grandkids are the future
Hail Hail
We had a family that were quite poor, no their fault their da bailed out on them. Quite a big family and mad Tims. Every Saturday morning they were guaranteed tae be at Mass, for the scramble.. SUndays,, mibbees aye and mibbees naw lol.
Scrambles?
A Saturday thing -a wee Pal and I travelled far and wide in search of scrambles..A good boost to the finances but not as good as that to be had from waggling an Ice lolly stick in the change slot of a public phone or sticking a wad of previously used chewing gum mixed with silver paper into the change slot of a fag machine just before closing time and then Getting up early in the Morning to remove the wad and all the Lovely change.
Philbhoy :-)
I think the wide & daughter are now booking our summer holiday, Tenerife is now the favourite (I blame Jobo)
Skint Knees CSC
Wide = wife